Poverty: Progress, Protest & Politics

"I would guess," says Anti-Poverty Director
Sargent Shriver of his nine-month-old Office of Economic Opportunity,
"that no Federal Government program in peacetime has ever gone so far
so fast, or ever zeroed in so well." With $793 million allocated and
another $1.5 billion requested, the anti-poverty program has indeed
gone a long way in a short time; now, by Shriver's count, it directly
affects 1,735,000 people.* How well it has zeroed in is a question that
is being debated throughout much of the U.S.